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Donate to support families affected by the crisis in Ukraine ➔ Linkin Park Premieres New Song “Heavy” Featuring Kiiara
American rock band Linkin Park dropped a new song "Heavy" on February 16, 2017. The song features American singer-songwriter Kiara Saulters, aka Kiiara.
The track is taken from their upcoming seventh album "One More Light", which will be released on May 19th. It was written by Mike Shinoda, Justin Tranter, Brad Delson, Julia Michaels and Chester Bennington.
Also the band has scheduled a Facebook Live event, set to take place on February 16th at 12pm Los Angeles time.
The band confirmed for a bunch of festivals in Latin America, Europe and Asia. The tour launches at Maximus Festival 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 6, 2017. Learn more about tour dates, click here.
About the song, Mike Shinoda told Billboard;
"We're super-excited about the song, and the excitement around it has been kind of crazy. We've put out a lot of first singles, and I've actually kind of been taken aback by the amount of excitement over the song and everything. One of the reasons why we chose 'Heavy' as the first single is because it is really the core sound of the album. This wasn't a scenario where the whole album sounds one way and the single sounds different. This is how the album sounds. So we wanted to go out with a song like that, where everybody can get a sense of the direction of this body of work."-
- He said about Kiiara;
"I got introduced to Kiiara by Zane Lowe. He interviewed her and asked her what her favorite music was, and she said Linkin Park right off the bat and he emailed me and said, 'She's really interesting. I think she's so cool, and you guys should really meet.' So we started talking and one thing led to another. Originally Chester had sung the whole song, but we felt like it needed this other perspective, if you hear another voice on it it would make it feel like it's coming from more than one person. We asked her if she'd sing on it, and I thought it really took the song to another dimension." - source : Billboard
